vcmslibrary - Nonfiction Grade 6-8

The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon
125 True Stories of Amazing Animals by (National Geographic)
10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War by Philip Caputo
Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind An American Friendship by Russell Freedman
Africa Is My Home: A Child of the Amistad by Monica Edinger
Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry by Scott Reynolds Nelson
Alexander the Great Rocks the World by Vicky Alvear Shecter
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
Andrew Zimmern's Field Guide to Exceptionally Weird, Wild & Wonderful Foods by Andrew Zimmern
Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain by Russell Freedman
Annaleise Carr: How I Conquered Lake Ontario to Help Kids Battling Cancer by Annaleise Carr as told to Deborah Ellis
The Apollo 13 Mission (graphic novel) by Donald B. Lemke
Are We Alone? Scientists Search for Life in Space by Gloria Skurzynski
Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves & Other Female Villains by Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring by by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
Basher Five-Two: The True Story of F-16 Fighter Pilot Captain Scott O'Grady
The Battle of Gettysburg: Spilled Blood on Sacred Ground by Dan Abnett (graphic novel)
Battle in the Arctic Seas by Theodore Taylor
The Battle of Antietam: The Bloodiest Day of Battle by Larry Hama (graphic novel)
The Battle of the Bulge: turning back Hitler's final push by Bill Cain
The Battle of First Bull Run: The Civil War Begins by Larry Hama (graphic novel)
The Battle of Iwo Jima: guerilla warfare in the Pacific by Larry Hama
The Battle of Midway: the destruction of the Japanese fleet by Steve White
The Battle of Shiloh: Suprise Attack! by Larry Hama (graphic novel)
Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During World War Twoby Nelly S. Toll
Best Shot in the West: The Adventures of Nat Love by Patricia C. McKissack
Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport
Billions of Years, Amazing Changes: The Story of Evolution by Laurence Pringle
A Black Hole Is Not a Black Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano
Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives by Albert Marrin
Black Potatoes: the story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 by Sally M. Walker
Blizzard: The Storm That Changed America by Jim Murphy
Blood, Sweat and Chalk: The Ultimate Football Playbook by Tim Layden
Bloody Times: the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt for Jefferson Davis by James L. Swanson
Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii by James M. Deem
Bodies from the Bog by James M. Deem
Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past by James M. Deem
Bomb: The Race to Build-And Steal-The World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
The Bone Detectives: how forsenic anthropologists solve crimes and uncover mysteries of the dead by Donna M. Jackson
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal
Breaker Boys: How a Photography Helped End Child Labor by Michael Burgan
Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story by S.D. Nelson
Buffalo Hunt by Russell Freedman
Bushnell's Submarine: The Best Kept Secret of the American Revolutionby Arthur S. Lefkowitz
Call of the Klondike: A True Gold Rush Adventure by David Meissner
Candy Bomber: the story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot" by Michael O. Tunnell
Cars On Mars: Roving the Red Planet by Alexandra Siy
The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin by Susan Goldman Rubin
Charles Darwin and the Beagle Adventure by A.J. Wood & Clint Twist
Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cats by Sy Montgomery
Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson
Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom: Life in the Dead Zone by Rebecca L. Johnson
Children of Alcatraz: Growing Up on the Rock by Claire Rudolf Murphy
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard by Loree Griffin Burns
Climbing Everest: tales of triumph and tragedy on the world's highest mountain by Audrey Salkeld
Close To Shore: the terrifying shark attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo
The Cowgirl Way: hats off to America's Women of the West by Holly George-Warren
The Crossing: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution by Jim Murphy
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone
D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, 1944 by Rick Atkinson
D-Day: the liberation of Europe begins by Doug Murray
Dive!: My Adventures in the Deep Frontier by Sylvia A. Earle
Discovering Black Amerca: From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century by Linda Tarrant-Reid
Discovering the Inca Ice Maiden by Johan Reinhard
Dog of Discovery: a Newfoundland's adventures with Lewis and Clark by Laurence Pringle
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy by Andrea Warren
Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany by Eleanor Ramrath Garner
The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O'Connell & Donna M. Jackson
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty by Tonya Bolden
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines by Paul Fleischman
Faces from the Past: Forgotten People of North America by James M. Deem
Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton
Fake Foods: Fried, Fast, and Processed: The Incredibly Disgusting Story by Paula Johanson
Fallout: political science of the atomic bomb by J. Robert Oppenheimer (graphic novel)
Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary by Gail Jarrow
The Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias & Casey Sherman
Fireflies in the Dark: the Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin by Susan Goldman Rubin
Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima by James Bradley
Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin
Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure by Craig Robinson
The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students by Suzanne Jurmain
Fort Mose and the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America by Glennette Tilley Turner
Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering the Coelacanth by Sally M. Walker
The Freedom Summer Murders by Don MItchell
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman
From Mud Huts to Skyscrapers: Architecture for Children by Christine Paxmann
Getting Away with Murder: the true story of the Emmett Till case by Chris Crowe
Gettysburg: the graphic novel by C.M. Butzer
The Giant and How He Humbugged America by Jim Murphy
Gifted Hands: the Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson, M.D.
A Girl Named Faithful Plum: the true story of a dancer from China and how she achieved her dream by Richard Bernstein.
The Girl with the White Flag by Tomiko Higa
The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: a doll's history and her impact on us by Tanya Lee Stone
Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Faith by Gabrielle Douglas
The Great American Dust Bowl by Don Brown
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
Guilty by a Hair!: Real-life DNA Matches! by Anna Prokos
Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books by Gary Paulsen
Hana's Suitcase: by Karen Levine
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed Amerca by Andrea Davis Pinkney & Brian Pinkney
Heart and Soul: the story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
Heroine of the Titanic: the real, unsinkable Molly Brown by Elaine Landau
Hidden Child by Isaac Millman
Hiding to Survive: Stories of Jewish Children Rescued from the Holocaust by Maxine B. Rosenberg
Hiroshima: the story of the first atom bomb by Clive A. Lawton
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The Horrors of Andersonville: Life and Death Inside a Civil War Prison by Catherine Gourley
The Horse and the Plains Indians: A Powerful Partnership by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
The House Baba Built: An Artist's Childhood in China by Ed Young
How Big is It? A Big Book All About Bigness by Ben Hillman
How Do You Burp in Space? by Susan E. Goodman
How the Beatles Changed the World by Martin W. Sandler
How the World Rescued 33 miners From 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert by Marc Aronson
How They Choked: Failures, Flops and Flaws of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg
How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg
Hurricane Force: in the path of America's deadliest storms by Joseph B. Treaster
I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust by Inge Auerbacher
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: growing up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton Jackson
I See the Promised Land: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr. by Arthur Flowers
Iceberg, Right Ahead! The Tragedy of the Titanic by Stephanie Sammaino McPherson
If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge by Marc Aronson
The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure by Martin W. Sandler
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II by Martin W. Sandler
Incredibly Disgusting Food: Carbonated Beverages, Mystery Meat and Salty and Sugary Snacks by Adam Furgang
Into Thin Air: a personal account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure by Jim Murphy and Alison Blank
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robinson's Values to Live By by Sharon Robinson
Jack the Ripper: Unsolved Mysteries by Jennifer Joline Anderson
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry (graphic novel) by Jason Glaser
Journey into Mohawk Country by H.M. Van den Bogaert
The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey by Louise Borden
The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard
Kennedy's Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation by Bill O'Reilly
Kids on Strike! by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
La Malinche: The Princess Who Helped Cortes Conquer the Aztec Empire by Francisco Serrano
Lafayette and the American Revolution by Russell Freedman
Legends, Icons & Rebels: Music That Changed the World by Robbie Robertson et al.
Left for Dead: a Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis by Pete Nelson
Lewis & Clark by Nick Bertozzi (graphic novel)
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by James Cross Giblin
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman
Lincoln's Flying Spies: Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War Balloon Corps by Gail Jarrow
Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
Lincoln's Last Days by Bill O'Reilly
Lincoln Shot: a President's Life Remembered by Barry Denenberg
Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration by Shelley Tougas
The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash
Lucy Long Ago: Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came From by Catherine Thimmesh
The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 by Bea Uusma Schyffert
The Manatee Scientists: Saving Vulnerable Species by Peter Lourie
The Many Rides of Paul Revere by James Cross Giblin
Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours by Ann Bausum
The Closer: My Story by Mariano Rivera
Marooned: The Strange But True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe by Robert Kraske
Master George's People: George Washington, His Slaves, and His Revolutionary Transformation by Marfe Ferguson Delano
Mao and Me: The Little Red Guard by Chen Jiang Hong
Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
Michelangelo by Diane Stanley
A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School by Carlotta Walls Lanier
Miles To Go For Freedom: Segregation & Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years by Linda Barrett Osborne
Miracle: The True Story of the Wreck of the Sea Venture by Gail Langer Karwoski
The Monitor Versus The Merrimac: Ironclads at War by Dan Abnett (graphic novel)
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose
Mr. Lincoln's High-Tech War by Thomas B. Allen and Roger MacBride Allen
Mythlopedia: She's All That, What a Beast! and Oh My Gods! by
Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan Goldman Rubin
My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary by Nadja Halilbegovich
The Mysteries of Beethoven's Hair by Russell Martin and Lydia Nibley
The Mysteries of the Mummy Kids by Kelly Milner Halls'
The Mystery of LIfe: How Nothing Became Everything by Jan Paul Schutten
North: The Amazing Story of Arctic Migration by Nick Dowson
The Northern Lights by Lucy Jago
The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin
Oh, Rats! The Story of Rats and People by Albert Marrin
The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat by Michael Pollan
One Times Square: A Century of Change at the Crossroads of the World by Joe McKendry
Our White House: Looking In Looking Out
Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town by Warren St. John
Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille by Russell Freedman
Parallel Journeys by Eleanor Ayer
Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party by Marian Calabro
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman
Photo By Brady: A Picture of the Civil War by Jennifer Armstrong
The Plant Hunters: True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth by Anita Silvey
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
Positive: Surviving My Bullies, Finding Hope, and Living to Change the World: a Memoir by Paige Rawl
The President is Shot!: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Harold Holzer
"The President Has Been Shot!": The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by James L. Swanson
Purple Death: the mysterious flu of 1918 by David Getz
Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat by Gail Jarrow
Rocket Boys: A Memoir by Homer H. Hickam, Jr.
Royal Murder: the deadly intrigue of ten sovereigns by Elizabeth MacLeod
The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: an expedition to the cloud forest of New Guinea by Sy Montgomery
Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing by Leonard S. Marcus
Reason for Hope: a spiritual journey by Jane Goodall
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang
Remember D-Day: the plan, the invasion, survivor stories by Ronald J. Drez
Remember Little Bighorn: Indians, Soldiers and Scouts Tell Their Stories by Paul Robert Walker
Remember Pearl Harbor: American and Japanese Survivors Tell Their Stories by Thomas B. Allen
River of Dreams: The Story of the Hudson River by Hudson Talbott
Royal Murder: the Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns by Elizabeth MacLeod
A Savage Thunder:Antietam and the Bloody Road to Freedom by Jim Murphy
Scaly Spotted Feathered Frilled: How Do We Know What Dinosaurs Really Looked Like? by Catherine Thimmesh
Score!The Action and Artistry of Hockey's Magnificent Moment by Mark Stewart
Sea Turtle Scientist by Stephen Swinburne
The Secret of Priest's Grotto: a holocaust survival story by Peter Lane Taylor
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker
She Said Yes: the unlikely martyrdom of Cassie Bernall by Misty Bernall
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: the Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong
Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy by Rhoda Blumberg
Shipwrecks: exploring sunken cities beneath the sea by Mary M. Cerullo
Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 by Karen Blumenthal
The Skull in the Rock: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins by Lee R. Berger & Marc Aronson
Sniffer Dogs: How Dogs (and Their Noses) Save the World by Nancy F. Castaldo
The Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Admiral Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter by Katherine Kirkpatrick
Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution by Moying Li
The Sons of Liberty (graphic novel) by Alexander Lagos and Joseph Lagos
Space, Stars and the Beginning of Time by Elaine Scott
Spellbinder: The Life of Harry Houdini by Tom Lalicki
Spies of Mississippi by Rick Bowers
The Story of Buildings by Patrick Dillon
The Story of Salt by Mark Kurlansky
Stronger Than Steel: Spider Silk DNA and the Quest for Better Bulletproof Vests, Sutures, and Parachute Rope by Bridget Heos
Superman Versus The Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate by Rick Bowers
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren
Talkin'About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes
Talking Tails: The Incredible Connection Between People and Their Pets by Ann Love & Jane Drake
The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America's Largest Mammal by Sy Montgomery
The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery
Tasting the Sky: a Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh
Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Thanks to my Mother by Schoschana Rabinovic
Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the PaleoAmerican World by Sally M. Walker
They callthemselves the KKK by Susan Campbell Baroletti
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
Throw Like A Girl: How to Dream Big & Believe in Yourself by Jennie Finch
Titanic: Vocies From the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson
Titanic Sinks! by Barry Denenberg
Tracking Trash! Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion by Loree Griffin Burns
Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert by Marc Aronson
Trapped in Ice!: an amazing true whaling adventure by Martin W. Sandler
Treasury of Egyptian Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters & Mortals by Donna Jo Napoli
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting by Jim Murphy
The Truth About Great White Sharks by Mary M. Cerullo
Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Boy King by Zahi Hawass
Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali by Charles R. Smith
Twin Tales: The Magic and Mystery of Multiple Birth by Donna M. Jackson
The Ultimate Weapon: the race to develop the atomic bomb by Edward T. Sullivan
Until We Meet Again: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust by Michael Korenblit and Kathleen Janger
Using Math to Climb Mount Everest, Survive in the Wild and on a Space Mission by Hilary Koll, Steve Mills and Russel Brice
A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown's War Against Slavery by Albert Marrin
The War to End All Wars: World War I by Russell Freedman
The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage by Eric Greitens
We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust by Jacob Boas
Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals
The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage by Eric Greitens
Weird Sea Creatures by Erich Hoyt
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson
What Was the Battle of Gettysburg by Jim O'Connor
What Was the Boston Tea Pary? by Kathleen Krull
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way by Sue Macy.
When the Wall Came Down: The Berlin Wall and the Fall of Soviet Communism by Serge Schmemann
With a Mighty Hand: The Story in the Torah by Amy Ehrlich
Who Was First?:Discovering the Americas by Russell Freedman
A Wicked History (Attila the Hun, Idi Amin, Napoleon, etc..)
Wild Animal Neighbors:Sharing Our Urban World by Ann Downer
Wild Horses: Galloping Through Time by Kelly Milner Halls
Wild Horses I Have Known by Hope Ryden
Winter at Valley Forge (graphic novel) by Matt Doeden
Witches!: the absolutely true tale of disaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer
World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker
Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl by Albert Marrin
Zlata's Diary: a child's life in wartime Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovicll
Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead by Rebecca L. Johnson

Nonfiction Grade 6-8

A Black Hole Is Not a Black Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano